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单词 accumbing
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accumbingn.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin accumbere , -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < classical Latin accumbere accumb v. + -ing suffix1. Compare earlier accubation n. and later accumb v.
Obsolete.
The practice of reclining, esp. at a table when dining; accubation.Recorded earliest in attributive use.
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the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of lying down or reclining > [noun] > at table
accubation1612
accumbing1646
accumbency1658
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 241 Now of their accumbing places, the one was called Stibadion and Sigma, carrying the figure of an halfe Moone, and of an uncertaine capacity. View more context for this quotation
1796 J. Hey Lect. Divinity I. xi. viii. 82 Wheatly says, accumbing ‘was the Table-gesture among those Nations’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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